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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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Francis Fenelon
abbé de Fénélon
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God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
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Resign every forbidden joy restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will banish all eager desires, all anxiety desire only the will of God seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.
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Despondency is not a state of humility on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.
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I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
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Speak, move, act in peace.
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Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
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There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.
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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.
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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.
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You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
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Pity enlarges the heart.
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There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.
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